Environment

Hyderabad:A committee under the Ministry of Environment has accorded 'green signal' for Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd to set up a nine million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) Cauvery Basin Refinery in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu at an outlay of nearly Rs 33,000 cr ore. The CPCL is in the process of setting up a refinery and a public hearing on the project was conducted by the District Collector of Nagapattinam on September 20, 2019 at a CPCL township near the existing MMTPA refinery in Panangudi village, minutes of the meeting of Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) held on August 20, said. The proposed refinery will provide direct employment to 600 people and indirect employment to 1000 during the operation phase of the refinery, it said. "The EAC, after detailed deliberations, recommended the project for grant of Environmental and CRZ (coastal regulatory zone) clearance, subject to compliance of terms and conditions as under, and general terms of conditions," the minutes … [Read more...] about Environment ministry panel gives nod for CPCL’s Rs 33k cr refinery in TN

Petrini this week released a book of interviews with Francis conducted over the past three years. The book, “TerraFutura” (“FutureEarth”), covers a host of environmental issues, from the Amazon rain forest and migration to food and the pope’s evolution in coming to understand the environmental threat to the planet. … [Read more...] about Pope teams up with Slow Food founder for environment appeal

Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) also responded to the court on the plea and stated that the National Framework for EPR under PWM Rules, 2018 is under consideration at MoEF&CC. CPCB has communicated to the Ministry to clearly enumerate the items to be covered under EPR. … [Read more...] about Environment Ministry suggests ‘buy back’ and other models for re-using plastic pens

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Dr Lynn Dicks, from the University of East Anglia, UK, who is not connected with the study, said the paper provides new evidence for "an alarming decline" that many entomologists have suspected for some time. … [Read more...] about Alarm over decline in flying insects